I buy the pintos from Costco, which seem pretty clean, but frankly, I don't like beans all that much, so most of my LTS legume storage is peas (green, yellow, split) and lentils. Several hundred pounds of those.

Huh, I use to get mine from Sam's Club before I found out the local feed store had them cheaper. The ones from Sam's were always really clean, listed as double washed and I don't think I ever got any rocks out of a bag, very few floater as well.

Nothing really helpful, our local feed store has a small section of people food with various 10-50 lb bags of beans, rice, and barley ("organic" and otherwise). They also have some canning supplies and canned bacon and butter. They use to have some sausage making supplies but apparently there are not enough of us here to be worth carrying.

My understanding is that both animal feed grains and grains for human consumption come from the same fields. Its just that the grains made for human consumption are cleaned better. If you want to buy animal feed grains...try to get ones that are double cleaned or even triple cleaned. Foods meant for human consumption are allowed only certain percentages of rodent poop/ insect parts.

If you want to buy grains from the feed store, make sure you are getting FEED grains and not SEED grains...SEED grains are what farmers use to plant their fields. This often have pesticides and herbicides on them....not good to eat...

Would I eat feed grain...maybe the question is have I EVER eaten feed grain....hahaha...When we were kids, we would get into the horse feed. It was a mixture of grains mixed with molasses....and we would dig through the grain until we would find a lump of molasses that was mixed with the grain....I thought that tasted SOOOO good...hahahah...so yes, I ate a lot of feed grain....also ate chunks of Dog Food...why kids like to eat dog food is a mystery to me, but it didn't taste as good as horse feed! hahahah!

Now a days, I first like to grow my own grain, but that is not always feasible...and I can't grow my own rice....so I purchase grains for human consumption....if it was necessary, I wouldn't hesitate to use the animal feed grain.....but I would certainly clean it several times. And I would not eat it raw or sprouted. I would cook it.

I would not buy Oat grain, because it is not hulled and is not fit for consumption.

North, that sounds like a pretty cool feed store....reminds me of our "country stores" around here....a little bit of this and a little bit of that....

Well no, I never have heard of it....and i suppose that if it's an "Old" saying, that it means they were so poverty stricken and desperate that they were eating their corn that they reserved for seed...and I also doubt that they had the pesticides and insectisides on the seed...hahhahah! smart folks! except for the part of eating their seed ...hahahahah..